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SIGNED REFUGE
Hardcover
Published January 1, 2006
About the author
Dot Jackson
7 books54 followersDot Jackson was born to Appalachian parents in Miami in 1932, where she later gave up her college studies of music and dance to become a writer. She died in 2016.
Her lifelong career in newspapers drew her to the mountain regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, where she covered murder trials, snake-handling prayer meetings, and some of the hardest-fought environmental battles of our times.
Her work garnered Jackson several Pulitzer Prize nominations and a National Conservation Writer of the Year award. She also collaborated on several acclaimed books of non-fiction.
She was co-founder and on-site manager of the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. Refuge was Dot Jackson’s first novel.
Her lifelong career in newspapers drew her to the mountain regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, where she covered murder trials, snake-handling prayer meetings, and some of the hardest-fought environmental battles of our times.
Her work garnered Jackson several Pulitzer Prize nominations and a National Conservation Writer of the Year award. She also collaborated on several acclaimed books of non-fiction.
She was co-founder and on-site manager of the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. Refuge was Dot Jackson’s first novel.
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